{"id":23,"date":"2010-09-08T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-09-15T16:47:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:47:04","slug":"cognitive-research-on-study-habits-in-the-nytimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/09\/08\/cognitive-research-on-study-habits-in-the-nytimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive research on study habits, in the NYTimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article for the <em>The New York Times<\/em>, Benedict Carey examines the recent  research that suggests that some of the received wisdom on study habits  may be counter-productive:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent years, cognitive scientists have shown that a few simple techniques can reliably improve what matters most: how much a student learns from studying. [&#8230;] But they directly contradict much of the common wisdom about good study habits, and they have not caught on.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, instead of sticking to <a title=\"BU Common @ Mugar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common\/hours\/\">one study location<\/a>, simply alternating the room where a person studies improves retention. So does studying distinct but related skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than focusing intensely on a single thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(from &#8220;Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits,&#8221; published September 6, 2010, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/07\/health\/views\/07mind.html\">retrieved September 8, 2010<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article for the The New York Times, Benedict Carey examines the recent research that suggests that some of the received wisdom on study habits may be counter-productive: In recent years, cognitive scientists have shown that a few simple techniques can reliably improve what matters most: how much a student learns from studying. [&#8230;] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3715],"tags":[3750,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}